Kentucky’s Legislature is in recess until the
2019 General Session, which begins on January 8, 2019.

2018 Legislation

SB 228 Amended to Expand Gambling

URGENT: A crazy effort to expand gambling at the very last minute (April 11, 2018)

SB 228 is an education bill regulating professional agents of high school and college athletes. Now someone has attached part of a gambling bill to it that had already died . . . and it’s the worst part of the gambling bill – it just legalizes the gambling! NO regulation. NO accountability, oversight, revenue or transparency.

Religious Liberty

PRIORITY!House Bill 372: Pastor, Church and School Protection Act

Rep. Jason Petrie: HB 372 The Pastor, Church and School Protection Act is about protecting pastors but not just pastors… READ MORE

Education

PRIORITY!House Bill 326: Students’ Right to Privacy Act

Rep. David Hale: One of the clearest principles in the U.S. Constitution is a citizen’s right to privacy… READ MORE

SB 48 – Child Marriage Ban

PRESS RELEASE:Revised Marriage Bill Passes with The Family Foundation’s Support (March 6, 2018)

A new version of Senate Bill 48 with changes suggested by The Family Foundation passed out of a Senate committee this morning with the full support of the committee. The bill would raise the minimum marriage age in the state to 17 and would establish a judicial procedure that includes parents for 17 year-olds wanting to marry.

“The original version of the bill would have allowed a judge to consent to a marriage, not only without the consent of the parents,” said Martin Cothran, spokesman for the group, “but potentially without even the knowledge of the parents. Several of the committee members had concerns about the original version of the bill, but the revised bill had the support of all members.”
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PRESS RELEASE:TFF Asks C-J to Retract Story (March 5, 2018)

TFF today asked the Courier-Journal to publicly retract a story it ran asserting that The Foundation was working in the Kentucky General Assembly to defend the marriages of children under the age of 16… The Foundation’s concern was limited to one part of the original language of SB 48 and involved only the issue of who should be able to approve or deny the marriages of 17-year-olds… “The original version of this bill would have allowed a judge to approve a marriage, giving parents no way to contest it… We have always been in full support of a full prohibition of the kind of marriages the story said we were defending.”
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